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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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Self-Identification and Status Updates: Personal Entrypoints to Museum Experiences

Museum 2.0

Consider, for example, the Sony Wonder Technology Lab in New York City. At the Brooklyn Museum, you are invited to pick a digital avatar (image) from their collection to represent you. Because Twitter is designed as a broadcasting service, the focus is on action--things you do, links you discover.

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